Water Damage Restoration in Touisset, RI
Touisset is the neighborhood in the southeast corner of Warren, a peninsula between the Kickemuit River and Mount Hope Bay reached by Touisset Road from the east side of town. It began as a summer colony around 1900, and the small shingle cottages along the shore roads have mostly been winterized and lived in year round, with newer houses on the lots behind them and the Audubon marsh at Touisset Point at the end of the road.
The ground is low and the water is on two sides. A nor'easter tide pushes the Kickemuit up over the shore lots, and the bay side takes the wind straight off Mount Hope Bay. The 1938 and 1954 surges both crossed this neck. Cottages that were winterized in the 1960s and 1970s have plumbing in crawl spaces and outside walls that were never meant for a Rhode Island January, and the septic systems and wells under them sit in ground that is wet most of the year.
This site puts Touisset homeowners through by phone to an independent local water damage provider.
Touisset water damage in a winterized cottage between two waters
River or bay water in the house is a storm surge and coastal flood cleanup. A pipe that froze in a crawl space under a converted cottage is a frozen pipe cleanup. Drying the framing under a cottage floor in this air is structural drying that runs until the readings hold.
What the crew wants to know about a cottage on the Kickemuit
Say whether the house sits on piers, a crawl space, or a foundation, and whether the water is salt. Warren's town hall handles the permits, and the flood zone here shapes what a rebuild can do.
Call (401) 560-5802 and say how high the water got and whether it is still in the house. An independent local water damage provider serving Touisset takes the call.
Services Available in Touisset
Water Extraction
Standing water pulled off wide pine boards, tile, brick, and dirt cellar floors on any level of an old Newport house, then the first moisture readings.
Structural Drying
Air movers and dehumidifiers run by daily readings until plaster, lath, old timber, and subfloor come back to dry numbers in salt air.
Storm Surge and Coastal Flood Cleanup
Harbor or bay water that came in during a nor'easter or hurricane pumped out, contaminated material removed, and the ground floor dried.
Stone Cellar Flooding Cleanup
Water pumped out of a fieldstone or rubble cellar, the source traced to a joint, a drain, or the tide, and the stone and framing above it dried.
Frozen Pipe Cleanup
Cleanup after a supply line froze in an uninsulated wall, a crawl space, or a shut-up summer house and split, then drying of what the thaw soaked.
Burst Pipe Water Damage
A failed supply line, corroded fitting, or split radiator line shut off, the water pulled out, and the floors and plaster below it dried.
Roof Leak and Ice Dam Water Damage
Wet attic insulation, plaster ceilings, and walls dried after a slate slipped, an ice dam backed up at the eave, or a nor'easter drove rain under the flashing.
Ceiling Water Damage Repair
A stained, sagging, or dropped plaster ceiling opened, the cavity above it dried, and the source found before anyone patches it.